Researching Care Leavers in an Ethical Manner in Switzerland, Germany, Israel and China

Keller, Samuel; Strahl, Benjamin; Refaeli, Tehila; Zhao, Claire Ting

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55639-4_12

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“…Children and young people are a group with whom researchers need to take particular care with ethical considerations. In the data collection, we were conscious that the themes addressed could raise questions, reactions, and feelings in participants during or after the interviews and discussions, as underlined by Keller, Strahl, Refaeli, and Zhao (). It was therefore clarified that employees who knew the young people and had relationships with them would be available for the participants if they wanted to talk to them after the interviews.…”

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The transition to adulthood from care as a struggle for recognition

Paulsen

Thomas

2017

Child & Family Social Work

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This article explores young people's experiences in the transition to adulthood from child welfare services and how Honneth's theory of recognition can be useful as an analytical tool to help us understand these experiences. The underpinning empirical research consisted of interviews and focus groups with 43 adolescents who had been in contact with Norwegian child welfare services. Three themes emerged as particularly important: having good relationships to caring adults, being listened to and able to influence their own lives, and receiving support and encouragement. The research shows how young people's difficulties in leaving care can be understood as experiences of misrecognition and points to some ways in which these can be overcome.

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The transition to adulthood from care as a struggle for recognition

Paulsen

Thomas

2017

Child & Family Social Work

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“…The few international articles that do integrate countries from other regions of the world (eg. Argentina with England and Northern Ireland in Kelly, Dixon, and Incarnato, 2016 or China with Israel, Germany and Switzerland in Keller et al, 2016) do not focus on international comparisons of policy or practice but on methodological issues and research access to the field. In summary, comparative multinational studies tend to refer to selected or relatively few countries and lack a global perspective.…”

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A multinational comparison of care-leaving policy and legislation

Strahl

Breda

Mann-Feder³

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J. int. comp. soc. policy

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Care-leavers – those transitioning from alternative care towards young adulthood – are widely recognized as a vulnerable population, yet child protection legislation seldom applies to them because they have reached adulthood. Despite this, little internationally comparative research on care-leaving policy and legislation has been conducted. This paper maps multinational policy and legislation and its impact on the services to care-leavers and the challenges they experience. An online survey was conducted with key informants in 36 countries and analysed by a multinational team of care-leaving scholars. Findings reveal that few countries have well-developed care-leaving legislation. Most countries provide little aftercare beyond the age of 18, even when legislation provides for it. Within the context of suboptimal social policy and limited aftercare services, findings also reveal high vulnerability among care-leavers. Recommendations for policy development, global dialogue, further research and advocacy are proposed.

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“…We have analytically selected those quotes from one case, which illustrate overall themes of after‐care‐biographies in our sample. To present the chosen narratives in an ethical manner without compromising the informant's confidentiality (Keller, Strahl, Refaeli, & Zhao, 2016), all names and details have been changed. The interviewees could give themselves a pseudonym.…”

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Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century

Keller

Gabriel

Bombach

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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Research on institutional care and its long‐term effect on life trajectories provides crucial and sometimes unexpected insights. In a qualitative study in Switzerland, we have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based on a reconstructive life course perspective and grounded theory. The findings show a complex interplay of residential care context (here: narratives from expert discourses) and intersubjective experiences during and after care. Most interviewees learned from their experiences to be sceptical of social relationships and of all kinds of state interventions—even decades after having left. A few were able to take charge of their lives and steer them in an individually successful direction. In these cases too, results point to fragile concepts of success. Thus, critical questions about residential care in these decades remain. We suggest that rather than abolish residential care facilities, we need to gather more evidence about the factors that contribute to high‐quality out‐of‐home‐placements. As professional settings, they can enable young people individually. They need to avoid responding to children as ‘objects of care’, by neglecting all subjective dimensions and reproducing a pattern of powerlessness with a strong focus on formal, measurable goals.

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Researching Care Leavers in an Ethical Manner in Switzerland, Germany, Israel and China

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

The transition to adulthood from care as a struggle for recognition

The transition to adulthood from care as a struggle for recognition

A multinational comparison of care-leaving policy and legislation

Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century

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